ETHICAL INQUIRY: PROBLEMS AND PARADIGMS in Fall 2025 (PL1021)

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How should I live? How can I determine whether an action is right or just? These are perennial questions that philosophers have long considered and attempted to answer. Explores the ethical writings of several philosophers, including Plato, Hobbes, and Mill, in order to help us clarify and articulate our own values as well as discover the nature of philosophy.

Course Master: 
ETHICAL INQUIRY: PROBLEMS AND PARADIGMS (PL1021)
Term: 
Fall 2025
Discipline: 
PL (Philosophy)
Credits: 
4 credits
Type: 
CCI
Level: 
Undergraduate
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
None
Co-requisites: 
None

Professor(s)

Learning Outcomes

  1. To grasp and communicate central ethical problems and paradigms 
  2. To understand and reconstruct philosophical texts 
  3. To analyze and evaluate ethical arguments 
  4. To develop, and convincingly argue for, one’s own ethical positions 
  5. Local and Global Perspectives: Students will enhance their intercultural understanding of languages, cultures, and histories of local societies and the global issues to which these relate (CCI LO1) 
  6. Civic and Ethical Engagement: Students will demonstrate awareness of ethical considerations relating to specific societal problems, values, or practices (historical or contemporary; global or local) and learn to articulate possible solutions to prominent challenges facing societies and institutions today so as to become engaged actors at various levels in our interconnected world (CCI LO4) 

Syllabus

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Book List

TitleAuthorPublisherISBN Number
Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle
CAMBRIDGE
9781107612235
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
Kant
CAMBRIDGE
9781107401068
Utilitarianism
Mill
CAMBRIDGE
9781108077934

Schedule

Start Date: 
Monday, September 1, 2025
End Date: 
Tuesday, December 16, 2025
DayStart TimeEnd TimeRoom
Tuesday
12:10
13:30
PL-3
Friday
12:10
13:30
PL-3